Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols.
2: 401, 403
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Publishing | Germaine Greer | As she later told the story, her agent suggested a book (in connection with the fiftieth anniversary of the Representation of the People Act of 6 February 1918, when women got the vote) on why... |
Publishing | Virginia Woolf | VW
negotiated with American publishers over the rights to The Voyage Out and Night and Day; George H. Doran
of New York became her first American publisher. Woolf, Virginia. The Letters of Virginia Woolf. Editors Nicolson, Nigel and Joanne Trautmann, Hogarth Press, 1975–1980, 6 vols. 2: 401, 403 |
Publishing | Virginia Woolf | The following year, for the first time in her career, she was earning more by her novels than by her essays and reviews. Her earned income grew markedly during this period, and she took much... |
Publishing | Patricia Highsmith | Doubleday
published PH
's novel The Glass Cell, but only after compelling her to do a great deal of painful cutting which left some pages of the former version only three lines long. Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003. 250 Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990. 124, 130 |
Publishing | Margery Allingham | She based it on a family story of her forebears: an early-nineteenth-century John Allingham who had a second family by Charlotte Duncan, in addition to his legitimate family. Martin, Richard, 1934 -. Ink in Her Blood: The Life and Crime Fiction of Margery Allingham. UMI Research Press, 1988. 133 |
Publishing | Mary Wesley | |
Publishing | Patricia Highsmith | PH
's crime novel without a murder appeared first as The Story-Teller in New York (for Doubleday
's Crime Club) and later in the UK for Heinemann
as A Suspension of Mercy. Wilson, Andrew Norman. Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith. Bloomsbury, 2003. 256-7 OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research, 1981–2025, Numerous volumes. 62 |
Publishing | Ruby M. Ayres | The Uphill Road does not seem to have appeared in England. One might suppose that Ayres chose this manner of publication because of her almost incredible productivity in this year. She continued to issue occasional... |
Publishing | Mary Augusta Ward | She earned considerably less for The Mating of Lydia than for her last novel: £1,200 from Smith, Elder
and £2,000 from Doubleday
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Publishing | Patricia Highsmith | The first version was rejected by Harper and Row
with the comment: A book can stand one or even two neurotics, but not three who are the main characters. qtd. in Highsmith, Patricia. Plotting and Writing Suspense Fiction. St Martin’s Press, 1990. 128 |
Publishing | Enid Bagnold | The seeds for this novel were planted ten years earlier, when MGM
approached Bagnold to write a film script with a part for a mature actress. A case of writer's block made her turn down... |
Publishing | Muriel Spark | The prospect of personal revelations in this book aroused great anticipation. A Doubleday
editor, no less than Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
, offered $100,000 for world rights and was disappointed not to get them. Stannard, Martin. Muriel Spark. The Biography. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2009. xv |
Publishing | Githa Sowerby | The play was published that year in London by Sidgwick and Jackson
, and in New York (where it opened in December the same year with the same cast) Riley, Patricia. Looking for Githa. New Writing North, 2009. 57 |
Publishing | Vita Sackville-West | VSW
's Challenge, a novel based on her love-affair with Violet Trefusis
, appeared in New York from George H. Doran
; it remained unpublished in Britain until 1974. Nicolson, Nigel, and Vita Sackville-West. “Foreword”. Challenge, Collins, 1974, pp. 7-11. 7 |
Publishing | Natalie Clifford Barney | NCB
published a collection of poems in French and English, Poems & poèmes, with Émile-Paul Frères
in Paris and George H. Doran
in New York. Barney, Natalie Clifford. Poems & poèmes. Émile-Paul Frères and George H. Doran, 1920. title-page |
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